Ecological Land Management and Stewardship
Offering wholistic stewardship to landowners
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Contact us with your land management & stewardship needs and goals. For a view of our offered services view our services catalog.
Understand
Understanding is the first step in ecological stewardship. Ecological Land Management & Stewardship (abbreviated here to ELMS) offers services for landowners to better understand their land and its condition. ELMS completes inventories, mapping, reporting, and other surveys with landowner goals in mind. ELMS collects this focused data to inform management for these goals. ELMS offers services such as: Forest Inventories, Mapping Services, Vegetative Surveys, Road and Trails System Reports, Forest Health Reports, and many other inventories, reports, and data collection services. View our services catalog for our services or reach out with your unique inventory, data collection project, mapping needs or reporting needs and ELMS will work with you to get your project underway.
Plan
Planning is the second step in ecological stewardship. Ecological Land Management & Stewardship (abbreviated here to ELMS) with its multitude of services allows for planning that considers multiple different goals for land. ELMS management plans are multi-dimensional and consider all of a landowner’s goals. ELMS seeks to find ways where goals for the land work reciprocally and collaboratively. ELMS offers several planning services such as Forest Management Plans, Recreational Trail Plans, Rotational Mowing Plans, Climate Resiliency Plans, Tree and Shrub Planting Plans, and other ecological plans. ELMS creates forest management plans that meet and surpass the requirements for the current use program in NH. View the services catalog to see our ecological planning services.
Implement
Implementation is third step and is most effective when preceded by understanding and planning. Ecological Land Management & Stewardship (abbreviated here to ELMS) provides several services to execute on your management goals. ELMS provides services such as pre-commercial thinning and timber stand improvement, tree and shrub planting for (climate resiliency, wildlife forage, and biodiversity enrichment), mechanical invasive species removal, brush hogging, timber harvest consulting, hiking trail maintenance and creation, recreational signage creation, and many other implementation services. View the services catalog to see our implementation services or reach out with your unique stewardship needs.
Experience
ELMS offers expertise in a broad area of land management and stewardship. The owner of ELMS, Colby Fong, has experience working on a variety of projects. Some examples are: working as the lead lands & conservation manager for a 10,000+ acre non-profit environmental organization. Experience as a professional trail builder with nationally recognized trail building organizations. Experience collecting data for some of the largest forest health/climate inventories in the Northeast. Experience working with and on small farms and woodlots. Experience writing forest and resource management plans for a diversity of landowners. Experience creating a seamless mapping of property holdings for landowners who hold 65+ properties and interests. Experience completing inventories for state agencies and large private clients. Experience mapping multiple different layers on properties including cover type, satellite imagery, trail systems, soil mapping and many other layers. ELMS is unique due to its capacity to help landowners find the expert they need whether that is directly with ELMS or a referral to another qualified professional. Great project outcomes for anyone who contacts ELMS is our priority whether that is done with ELMS or elsewhere.
Ecological Land Management & Stewardship (abbreviated here to ELMS)
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